While all this is going on, here’s a reminder of everything President Trump has said about climate change:

1. Climate change is a Chinese Hoax

In November 2012, President Trump tweeted that global warming is a Chinese hoax which is part of a plot designed to bring down US business and manufacturing.

“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

Trump has since backed away from what he said, calling his words a “joke” and sometimes denying he said them altogether, as independent fact-checking website PolitiFact notes. However, over the years Trump hasn’t shied away from his scepticism about climate change, and he has referred to it as a hoax many times. A lot of these claims are on his Twitter feed.

This tweet is from January 2014.

“NBC News just called it the great freeze — coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?”

A few days later:

“Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!”

“Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air — not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense.”

“Well, I think the climate change is just a very, very expensive form of tax. A lot of people are making a lot of money. I know much about climate change. I’d be — received environmental awards. And I often joke that this is done for the benefit of China,” he said. “Obviously, I joke. But this is done for the benefit of China, because China does not do anything to help climate change. They burn everything you could burn; they couldn’t care less. They have very — you know, their standards are nothing. But they — in the meantime, they can undercut us on price. So it’s very hard on our business.”

3. Wind farms (a form of renewable energy) are bad for people’s health

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